Here’s a short documentation of my current progress in re-creating the Piwik maps in SVG/JS. Since we’re going to create at least one pre-generated map source file per country, file size is going to be an important issue. That’s why we thought about removing all polygons whose area is below a certain threshold, say 10 square km.
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Generating Color Blindness Test Images with Processing
My wife recently observed my two-year-old son eating green strawberries and is now curious if he has some kind of red-green color blindness. Unfortunately, he is not yet able to give us the name of numbers, so the commonly used Ishihara test images won’t do. Well, I thought it´s a nice idea for this rainy Sunday afternoon to generate some of those images myself. Instead of numbers I used simple images of things I knew my son is able to name. If you like, find the source files here. The icons are taken from thenounproject.
My wife recently watched my 2 years old son eating green strawberries and was now curious if he has some kind of red-green color blindness. Unfortunately, he is not yet able to tell us the name of numbers, so the commonly used Ishihara test images won’t work in this case. Well, I thought it would be a nice idea for this rainy Sunday to generate some of those images myself. Instead of numbers I used simple images of things I knew my son is able to name. If you like, find the source files here. Icons taken from thenounproject.
International Aid Flows (a first look)
I just got a new data set on international aid flows. This is my first look at it, showing the sum of 110,742 donations since 1960. Donors are white, recipients are red. Pretty complex, I think.
Bin vor kurzem an einen neuen Datensatz zu internationalen Hilfsleistungen gekommen. Das hier ist mein erster “Blick” auf die Daten. Man sieht die Summe aller 110.742 Spenden seit 1960. Die Geberländer sind weiß, die Empfänger sind rot. Ziemlich komplex, finde ich..
Energy Production vs. Energy Consumption
That was my Processing exercise for tonight:
red circle = energy consumption
yellow circle = energy production
y-position = consumption / production
Inspired by David McCandless
Source: epp.eurostat.ec.europa.euSo, das war meine Processing-Übung für heute abend:
Roter Kreis = Energieverbrauch
Gelber Kreis = Energieproduktion
Vertikale Position = Verbrauch / Produktion
Inspiration: David McCandless
Quelle: epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
Some Charts on German Party Donations (1994-2008)
To be able to provide some contextual information for the coming visualizations on german party donations I manually scraped the total party donations for each year. As usual I instantly started to visualize the data, even though it’s merely done with OpenOffice..
Um für kommendene Visualisierungen zum Thema Parteispenden etwas Kontextinformation zu bekommen, habe ich aus den Rechenschaftsberichten mal die Gesamtspenden der einzelnen Jahre rausgesucht. Wie sich das gehört musste ich die neuen Daten direkt visualisieren, wenn auch nur mit OpenOffice..